The Watergate
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“Absolutely not”: Sneed interview, August 10, 2017.
Zanecki had wanted to live in the Watergate: Paul Zanecki interview, October 25, 2016.
CHAPTER NINE: MONICALAND
For Christmas: Washington Post, December 18, 1993.
“The banquets were hard on him”: Arevian interview, May 2, 2016.
Pacific geoduck clams: Ibid.
Lights flashed in response: Nation’s Restaurant News, May 20, 1996.
“New people bought the hotel”: Ibid.
“Jean-Louis didn’t want to negotiate”: Ibid.
More than five hundred reservations: Washington Post, June 15, 1996.
Unlike other celebrity chefs: New York Times, November 26, 2001.
“No matter what”: Washington Post, June 15, 1996.
$1 million contribution: Marcia Lewis, The Private Lives of the Three Tenors (New York: Boulevard Books, 1998), 81.
Following a bitter divorce: Andrew Morton, Monica’s Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 53.
Marcia had a conversation with Walter Kaye: Ibid.
Later that evening: “Time Line: Clinton Accused,” Washington Post, September 13, 1998, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/timeline.htm.
She brought a photograph: Baltimore Sun, February 3, 1998.
“They are trying to set you up”: Morton, 140.
Monica called her mother: Ibid., 182.
Later that night, back in Watergate South: Ibid., 191.
“It reminded me”: Ibid., 250.
Starr’s investigators arrived: Ibid., 196.
$3,500 a month: Exhibit 19–12, “Investigation of Illegal or Improper Activities in Connection with the 1996 Federal Elections Campaigns,” U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, March 5, 1998, 2563.
a letter of reference: Newsweek, February 16, 1998.
“It’s been 20 years”: Washington Post, January 29, 1998.
“a must person”: Los Angeles Times, July 20, 1997.
Cardozo flashed back to . . . Maurice Stans: CNN transcript, July 30, 2017.
“To Charlie Trie with thanks”: Photocopy, stamped “THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN” and dated November 8, 1996, FOIA Number 2008-0825-F, Clinton Presidential Library.
“significant concerns”: Los Angeles Times, December 18, 1996.
“a very positive story”: CNN transcript, December 18, 1996.
three months after: Washington Post, January 30, 1998.
“only when it was replaced”: Washington Post, March 6, 1998.
and Morton Kondracke: “GOP must launch a new probe of Chinagate,” Jewish World Review, August 9, 1999.
“we suffered H.R. problems”: David Bradley correspondence, July 16, 2017.
“Either he’s the nicest man in the world”: Katherine Bradley interview, December 6, 2016.
“The Watergate is perfect”: David Bradley interview, December 6, 2016.
should be at his desk: Blood on the Carpet, episode one, BBC 2, September 13, 1993.
“an upstart caterer”: Telegraph, August 30, 2006.
“We simply couldn’t get a look in”: Blood on the Carpet episode one, BBC 2, September 13, 1993.
“I was quite taken aback”: Ibid.
“It was a good talking point”: Ibid.
“Robinson doesn’t have one quality business”: Independent Online, retrieved February 25, 2017.
The battle lasted nine weeks: Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1996.
Rocco tried to buy the Watergate: Independent Online, retrieved February 25, 2017.
“There are a million locks”: Washington Post, May 27, 1997.
“They could be in a junk pile”: Ibid.
Herrald’s lock was sold for more than $20,000: Bill Welch interview, July 12, 2016. The lock was sold by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 14, 2017, for $62,500. The consignor’s identity was not disclosed.
“a former manager at the Watergate”: Ibid.
On the front page: Washington Post, January 21, 1998.
“it just went crazy”: Morton, 199.
building manager warned: Ibid., 200.
“Chinese fire drill”: States News Service, January 29, 1998.
“This place was surrounded”: Phil Rascona oral history interview, GWU, 2014.
Lewinsky was seen in public for the first time: Examiner News Service, January 26, 1998.
“She might as well be in jail”: USA Today, January 29, 1998.
The curtains shut out photographers: Morton, 200.
“Gucci prison”: Baltimore Sun, February 3, 1998.
“More than 25 years after it first gained infamy”: States News Service, January 29, 1998.
“the ghost of Watergate”: San Jose Mercury News, December 7, 1998.
Dole, just two years after: New York Times, March 29, 1998.
20 million people: Wired, September 11, 2009.
“As I depart 700 New Hampshire”: Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1998.
Giuseppe Cecchi, who had acquired it: John Cecchi interview.
“not too well-kept”: Robert Dole interview, March 2, 2016.
“See all that back there?”: Wall Street Journal, September 1, 2016.
CHAPTER TEN: DONE DEAL
Incredible: E. C. Schroeder interview, March 22, 2017.
“prestigious landmark”: Washington Business Journal, December 7, 1998.
“a little problematic”: Michael Darby interview, June 19, 2016.
“You’re crazy”: Frank Durkin interview, December 5, 2016.
“Washington has this thing”: Darby interview.
“It was the smallest kitchen I had ever seen”: Ibid.
“blocks from the core of downtown”: Washington Post, May 31, 2003.
“Co-ops give us more control over who buys”: “Watergate owners seek condo conversion,” Northwest Current, May 14, 2003.
WARY AT THE WATERGATE: Washington Post, June 2, 2003.
“There haven’t been many”: Washington Post, January 26, 2004.
“for many, many years”: Darby interview, June 13, 2017.
“Looking back”: Audrey Wolf interview, December 2, 2016.
by a vote of 54 to 46 percent: District Zoning Commission, hearing transcript, January 29, 2004, 16–17.
“We don’t designate use”: Northwest Current, September 22, 2004.
The driving force: Eig interview, February 17, 2017.
“a bungled political robbery”: Northwest Current, September 29, 2004.
Someone had sent him “Google information” on Moretti: “Preservation board puts off decision on Watergate complex designation,” Ibid.
Would it be possible?: Eig interview.
“You could feel the angst in the room”: Carol Mitten interview, February 17, 2017.
“Not that we did it very often”: Wolf interview.
As a young man: Jack Olender interview, February 27, 2017.
“fine, but a little cramped”: Ibid.
“generally dysfunctional”: Ibid.
“It was as though”: Darby interview.
“It didn’t matter to him”: Ibid.
“social justice”: Olender interview.
“wasn’t afraid of anything”: Ibid.
He knew he was in over his head: Ibid.
Outside the hearing room: Washington Post, June 8, 2004.
“six antidemocratic and recalcitrant”: Ibid.
“THE CHOICE IS SIMPLE”: Ibid.
“This issue has been so emotional”: Ibid.
“There was definitely ill will”: Olender interview.
The proposed sale was approved by a narrow margin: Bill Condrell memorandum to the Membership of Watergate East, April 22, 2004.
“at the direction of the board”: Judith Eaton memorandum, April 22, 2004.
“angst and fear”: Ibid.
“muzzled”: Ibid.
“It’s a second Watergate cover-up”: Washington Post, May 9, 2004.
“Sour grapes”: I
bid.
League of Women Voters: Washington Post, June 8, 2004.
“It’s a decent place”: Ibid.
“done deal”: Ibid.
Three weeks later: Memorandum of Opinion, Court of Chancery, State of Delaware, Baring et al. v. Watergate East, Inc., et al., October 18, 2004, 8.
In August, Monument Realty announced: Commercial Real Estate News, August 20, 2004.
Darby approached Thomas Keller: Darby interview.
“I could see it in his eyes”: Ibid.
As he looked around: Ibid.
“We feel vindicated”: Washington Post, October 19, 2004.
“It’s de-victory”: Ibid.
“the name recognition of The Watergate is worldwide”: Finch correspondence, September 22, 2004.
“The Watergate made peace”: Eig interview.
“I’ll take it”: Karl Rove interview, December 16, 2017.
One Sunday afternoon: New York Times, April 9, 2006.
Annie Leibovitz photographed: Vogue, October 2001.
“like family”: Ibid.
“The worst Christmas goodies you’ve ever seen”: Rove interview.
“Been to the Watergate”: Reprinted in Arizona Republic, May 2, 2006.
a jury convicted Brent Wilkes: San Diego Union-Tribune, February 20, 2008.
A year later: Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2008.
Hookergate: CNN transcript, May 5, 2006.
Darby reevaluated his plans: Bisnow.com, January 11, 2007.
$69.8 million construction loan: Real Estate Finance and Investment, January 14, 2005.
“It’s too good a name to change”: Associated Press, August 6, 2007.
“incredibly tough times”: Klaus Peters interview, October 20, 2016.
“We apologize for the inconvenience”: Washington Post, August 6, 2007.
closure was “devastating”: Anton Obernberger interview, July 11, 2017.
“The hairdressers wanted to go”: Washington Post, November 26, 2011.
“The Watergate is not a destination”: Washington Post, January 25, 1993.
“Forget clothes”: Ibid.
“Senior Safeway”: Washington Post, November 2, 2011.
“It’s not the same”: Washington Post, November 26, 2011.
BentleyForbes, the California-based: Washington Business Journal, November 17, 2008.
“He wants to look 70”: Washington Post, January 25, 1993.
“We paid him”: Don Hayes interview, February 21, 2017.
virtually no relics from the Nixon era: Ibid.
$750: Washington Post, September 4, 2007.
“This must be the most media attention”: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) News, September 7, 2007.
David Urso, a former Secret Service agent: Getty Images.
“there was nothing left in the building but an echo”: Hughes interview.
“We weren’t going to wait forever”: Northwest Current, August 6, 2008.
“I will remember that day”: Darby interview.
“How much planning”: Spiegel Online, March 13, 2009.
“It’s over”: Darby interview.
“Since the bankruptcy announcement”: Washington Post, September 22, 2008.
Darby approached PB Capital: Darby interview.
“There are investors with an interest”: Washington Post, July 2, 2009.
“They felt they had no choice”: Darby interview.
He estimated renovations would cost at least $100 million: Washington Post, July 19, 2009.
“For anybody to understand”: Darby interview.
Cooper’s heart sank: Paul Cooper interview, February 20, 2017.
“It’s a Washington landmark”: McClatchy wire report, July 21, 2009.
“Sold”: Cooper interview.
EPILOGUE
Blaine’s life “was one long orgy”: Globe and Mail, June 26, 1980.
“People who live in the Watergate apartment complex”: Margaret Truman, Murder in the White House (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 59.
“Well, Karl”: Rove interview.
“People are looking to buy”: Bisnow.com, July 21, 2017.
“It’s like if you’re a surfer”: Washington Business Journal, September 13, 2013.
“It wasn’t a real estate project”: Luscombe interview.
He tried to buy: Cecchi interview.
“Some people have good sense”: Olender interview.
“so expensive”: Wolf interview.
but ordered the documents unsealed: Hughes, 214.
“remove any fig leaf”: New York Times, January 2, 2017.
While stationed in Oklahoma: New Yorker, March 11, 2013.
The main course: USA Today, December 25, 2007.
“But the teeth”: Patricia and Arthur Cotton Moore interview, June 13, 2017.
“Maybe one of the engineers”: Tina Winston interview, June 16, 2016.
Carrie Christoffersen, the Newseum’s chief curator, explained: Carrie Christoffersen interview, September 15, 2016.
$42 million: Property Week, June 11, 2010.
“was a glamorous place”: Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2015.
20 percent tax credit: Eig correspondence, August 21, 2017.
A team of chefs: Georgetown Dish, July 18, 2017.
“a poetic and passionate soul”: Magnifico interview.
“more dogs than children”: New York Times, June 25, 1966.
“All those birthday parties”: Obernberger interview.
Index
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Aalto, Alvar, 17
Aaron, Hank, 189
Abel, Stanford, 10
Abruzzese, Felicia, 17
Adler, Warren, 21, 351–52
Aghazadeh, Kioumars, 326
Agnew, Spiro T., 4, 84, 93–94, 113–14, 167
Aguglia, Richard, 317, 322
Aiken, George, 150
Aiken, Lola, 150
Air-conditioning system, 124, 266–68
Air Force, U.S., 40, 57, 129, 130, 190
Air Force Ball, 129
Aldrin, Edwin, 105
Alexandria, Virginia, 111–12
Alex Cooper Auctioneers, 347–49
Alfonsín, Raúl, 242–43
Alford, Charlotte Smith, 69
Alison, John R., 190
Allen, Richard, 80, 243
All the President’s Men (movie), 162
Alvarez & Marsal, 345–46
Ambrosoli, Giorgio, 177–78
American Ballet Theatre, 105
American Express, 286
American Institute of Architects, 76
American Institute of Interior Design, 88
American Institute of Public Opinion, 121
American Securities Corp., 11, 14
Americans with Disabilities Act, 334
American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers), 57, 59
Ameritas, 138–39
Amincor Bank, A.G., 170
Anderson, Annelise, 91–92, 124–25
Anderson, Jack, 252, 253
Anderson, John, 222
Anderson, Martin, 91–92, 124
Anderson, William, 124–25
Annenberg, Leonore “Lee,” 228, 229, 237
Annenberg, Walter, 228, 231
Apollo 12, 105
Applegate, 352
Arad, Ron, 359
Archer, Glenn, 28–29
Architectural design, 17–19, 25, 31–32, 35–37, 41–43, 49–50
Architectural Forum, 40
Arevian, Cathy, 278
Argentina, 242–43, 257–58
Arkansas Gazette, 119–20, 247, 250
Armacost, Michael, 255
Armstrong, Neil, 105
Arnstein, George, 64–65, 77, 113, 164
Arnstein, Sherry, 64–65, 265
Arrow Cross, 205–6
> Arthur, Bea, 235
Ashcroft, John, 338
Aspin, Les, 189–90
Associated Press (AP), 40, 128, 250
Astrove, David, 347–49
Atlantic Media Group, 361
Attack on Pearl Harbor, 57, 67, 171
Auchincloss, Hugh D., 76
Auction of Watergate site, 9–11
Bacall, Lauren, 235
Bacon, Kenneth, 282
Bailey, John, 70–71, 74
Bailey, Pearl, 234
Baldwin, Alfred, 138–40
Baltimore Sun, 298
Baltimore-Washington Parkway, 84
Banca di Roma, 170, 172, 173–74, 176–77, 183–84, 198–99, 257
Banca Privata Finanziaria, 177–78, 200
Banca Unione of Milan, 170
Bangor Punta, 183, 199
Bank of England, 155
Barker, Bernard, 137–42
Barlow, Joel, 69, 124
Barnes, Binnie, 127
Barone, Mario, 183–84, 199
Barrett, John, 141–42
Bason, Clark, 353–54
Bath Royal Crescent Bar, 263
Batik Walla, 151
Battey, Robert, 337–38
Bay of Pigs, 146
Beale, Betty, 114, 117
Becker, Ralph, 60–61
Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library, 301–2
Bell, Griffin, 197, 263
Bell, Raymond, 83
Belles Rives at The Watergate, 331–32, 340–41
Belli, Melvin, 315
Benny, Jack, 4
BentleyForbes, 342
Berlin, Margaret, 65
Berlin, Ralph, 65
Berman, Edith, 265–68
Berman v. Watergate West, 267–68
Bernstein, Carl, 79
Bernstein, Leonard, 105, 235
Bert, Pierre, 182
Best Addresses (Goode), 333
Better Homes & Gardens, 62
Between Hope and History (Clinton), 288
Beverly Hills Hotel, 5, 144
Billygate, 352
Birch Lane, 281
Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, 303–4, 305, 307–8, 311, 314, 317, 318, 322, 329, 330, 331
Blitzer, Wolf, 289
Bloomingdale, Alfred, 227, 237
Bloomingdale, Betsy, 227, 237
Blount, Carolyn, 126
Blount, Winton M., 93, 126
Board of Zoning Adjustment, 48, 61, 76
Boasberg, Tersh, 313–14, 333, 335
Booker, Clarence, 323
Booker, Simeon, 162
Bordeaux “Winegate,” 181–83
Bordoni, Carlo, 154–55, 169–70, 171, 174
Bork, Robert H., 168, 271
Borlenghi, Pierluigi, 95–96